Interview with Howard Rheingold – “I agree with Benkler that there’s a third form of production along with the market and the firm, that’s emerging around common-space peer production, and that we don’t understand a great deal about it yet. I would not dismiss it. But neither do I think we really know whether you can do it with things other than producing code or a knowledge repository online. What can’t you do with it? We don’t really know yet.” (Scott Rosenberg – AssignmentZero)

“What do primordial bacteria, medieval alchemists, and the World Wide Web have to do with each other? This fascinating exploration of how information systems emerge takes readers on a provocative journey through the history of the information age.” (Alex Wright)

“There is an astonishing amount of disbelief that the users of web pages have learned to scroll and that they do so regularly. Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.” (Mike Hughes – UXmatters)

“There is an astonishing amount of disbelief that the users of web pages have learned to scroll and that they do so regularly. Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.” (Milissa Tarquini – Boxes and Arrows)

“Megan Jaegerman produced some of the best news graphics ever while working
at The New York Times from 1990 to 1998. Her work is smart, finely detailed,
elegant, witty, inventive, informative. A fierce researcher and reporter, she writes
gracefully and precisely. Megan has the soul of a news reporter, who happens
to use graphs, tables, and illustrations–as well as words–to explain the news.
Her best work is the best work in news graphics.” (Edward Tufte) – courtesy of jasonkottke

“Now, more than ten years later, we’re finding ourselves talking about the framework once again. Time has let us simplify it: Stage I is now Technology, Stage II is now Features, Stage III is now Experience, and Stage IV is now Integration.” (Jared Spool – UIE Brain Sparks)

An Interview with Meredith Davis – “The relationship between the visual representation of data and the human sensing of change is not an area with which design has much experience.” (Steven Heller – AIGA Voice)

“I had a wonderful time at CHI despite the limited amount of content for designers and my being unable to get into the courses I’d wanted to attend. I particularly regret missing Kim Goodwin’s course, ‘Where Usability Meets Desirability: Visual Design with Personas and Goals.’ I heard it was great. To enable CHI to reach its full potential in coming years, I hope its organizers take an iterative approach to designing the conference and solve the problems that exist.” (Pabini Gabriel-Petit – UXmatters)

“Interaction design is a blended endeavor of process, methodology, and attitude. Discussions of process and methodology are pervasive in the interaction design milieu and often revolve around a perceived tension between process and methodology and the role of design within this discipline. To be clear, process is the overarching design framework—for example, an iterative, or spiral, process or a sequential, or waterfall, process. Conversely, a methodology is a prescribed design approach such as user-centered design or genius design.” (Kevin Silver – UXmatters)

Consumers moving between online and offline channels in the context of leisure travel preparations (PhD Thesis 2007) – “Consumers are increasingly using web-based systems for the search and purchase of products and services. They are, however, also still using traditional, offline channels such as telephone, high street and mail order, on a regular basis. The research presented in this thesis investigated consumer use of e-services in the context of a multi-channel environment, with a special focus on voluntary channel choice and voluntary movement between channels. Both multi-channel usage and voluntary
movement between channels are currently under-researched topics.” (Geke van Dijk – STBY)

“One of the basic, overriding elements featured in CNN’s new website design and layout is something I like to call quiet structure. Quiet structure is achieved when you de-emphasize the structural elements; the containing boxes, structural lines, bullets, structural color elements, etc. and bring a rhythmical consistency to the layout. The result is that the content becomes more conspicuous and the overall clarity of presentation is greatly enhanced.” (Andy Rutledge – Design View)

GK VanPatter in conversation with Bob Goodman (UX Consultant), Peter Jones Ph.D. (Redesign Research), and Eric Reiss (FatDUX and President, Information Architecture Institute) – “Considering the complexity involved our purpose here is not to try to redefine Information Architecture or other disciplines but rather talk about whether or not what we are doing has changed, is changing and what we might do to help others understand what that might mean, how we think about all the change that is occurring ourselves, how do we make sense of it? In no particular order I invite you to share your own thoughts and then lets jump off from there.” (NextD) – courtesy of puttingpeoplefirst